Arda Guler warmed up but did not come on against Sevilla

After an arthroscopy on the meniscus in his right knee and a couple of muscle injuries, Arda Guler's fitness has been a long time coming, but he's ready now. Even so, he is finding it hard to appear in Carlo Ancelotti's rotations, who, in La Liga game against Sevilla, ordered him to warm up and, in the end, opted for a Dani Ceballos who came on in the 90th minute for Brahim Díaz.
The Turk was presented as one of the coaching staff's solutions to give the 'Merengue' attack a bit more cutting edge, but, just as he was preparing to take the field, Luka Modric opened the scoring with a stunning strike from the edge of the box. This prompted an improvised meeting between the coach and his son Davide and another of his assistants, to whom he made several gestures by lowering his palm in a sign of "calm". He wanted to postpone the planned substitutions.
Aware of how difficult it had been to take the lead against Sevilla, he ended up ordering the introduction of a player with a profile more dedicated to controlling the ball than dribbling. Curiously, a few minutes later, in the 94th minute, he introduced Alvaro Rodriguez for Rodrygo Goes when the home-grown player had played a game for Madrid's reserve team just a day earlier. He could have given this low-risk opportunity to the former Fenerbahce player.
Guler has only made five appearances this season, one of them as a starter - the Copa del Rey match against Arandina. He has only played in the closing stages of matches against Union Deportiva Las Palmas at the Estadio de Gran Canaria, Girona at the Santiago Bernabeu and Rayo at Vallecas, so he has hardly had time to shine, which has caused some indignation among his compatriots, who are closely following his career in Spain.